[vox] Looking for a new laptop

[Richard Harke]

I have an ASUS laptop, model N82J that I bought about three years ago. I
installed
debian squeeze (dual boot, though I seldom boot windows) with no real
issues. Recently I  upgraded to wheezy. The wifi went recently and I now
use a no-name wifi-usb stick.
Needed to upgrade the kernel manually for that. I really like it. 14 inch
screen is easy to
read and I like the portability. Downsides: expensive as it has core i7 and
Nvidia Geforce
Also battery life is pretty short but I mostly go places where there is AC.

Richard


On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Michael Seydel <micseydel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm typing this on a Zareason laptop I got in July. I had a triple-boot
> Macbook Pro before. Compared to that delightful aluminum unibody, my
> Zareason laptop feels extremely shoddy.
>
> The keyboard is awful, I feel like I have to really smash the keys to type
> out a password reliably. Pushing down on the plastic around the keys in the
> middle of the keyboard shows obvious bowing. The meta key came with a Tux
> sticker which quickly began peeling off. I ordered it with a CD-drive,
> which shakes in the body as well. The laptop came with a free back-lit
> keyboard that I used for a while when at my desk, but it doesn't really
> help in terms of portability.
>
> I really wanted to support open source, but I expect I'll go back to MBP
> for my next laptop and deal with all the effort of getting Linux working on
> hardware not meant for it.
>
> On the positives, they shipped with with Linux Mint, which I requested, it
> arrived within a couple days (Berkeley -> Mountain View), and it's very
> snappy with few hardware/software compatibility issues. Wifi disconnects
> every several hours, requiring manual reconnecting, but I haven't
> investigated whether that's Mint's fault or not.
>
> - Michael
>
>
> On Mon Dec 01 2014 at 6:49:09 PM Bob Scofield <scofield at omsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> Where's Alex Mandel?  He bought a Zareason laptop.
>>
>> I bought a Zareason desktop.  I like the idea of supporting those who
>> support Linux.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> On 12/01/2014 12:59 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:
>> > I've had bad luck with some mainstream manufacturers supporting any
>> > faulty or miss-functioning hardware if I'm not running the provided OS
>> > (or just getting a hold of knowledgeable support in the first place).
>> > Since then I've had a much better experience by going with System76,
>> > and also the Berkeley based ZaReason laptops
>> > http://zareason.com/shop/home.php both in terms of hardware working
>> > out of the box but also in getting knowledgeable and reliable service
>> > if something doesn't work. Something to consider.
>> >
>> >
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